Teaching to Inspire Vocation: Restoring a Critical Element of Professional and Technical Education

by Timothy C. Hohn

Overview

A unique handbook for collegiate faculty, instructors, administrators, and graduate students in education to help professional and technical students discover meaning and purpose through their scholarship. College students are looking for more than instrumental career knowledge and skills, they are looking for something to care about and build their lives around: a vocation. This book provides recommendations to enhance and amplify collegiate professional and technical instruction and curricula to support student discernment of vocation. Teaching to Inspire Vocation makes a case for teaching for vocation and provides a historical perspective on vocation in Western education. The core of the book focuses on the specific elements for an instructional framework on teaching for vocation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475864182
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/15/2024
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Timothy C. Hohn is a retired faculty member and Chair of the Horticulture Department at Edmonds College, where he taught horticulture for 22 years. He received a Masters degree in Public Garden Management from the University of Delaware’s Longwood Program in 1986 and is the author of Curatorial Practices for Botanical Gardens, also by Rowman & Littlefield.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction Answering Mary’s Question

Chapter 1Vocation in the History of Education

Chapter 2Vocation in Context

Cognition and Vocation

Spirituality and Personal Knowledge

Liberal Learning and Vocation

Vocational Vocabulary and Narrative

Vocation and Community Service

Vocation and Calling

Conclusion

Chapter 3Authenticity, Mentoring, and Learning Community Elements

Authenticity

Mentoring

Learning Communities

Chapter 4Contemplative Practice Element

Vocation and Cognition

Vocation and Attention

Vocation and Contemplative Practice

Mindfulness

Reflection

Contemplative Reading, Writing, Listening, Seeing

Contemplative Movement

Conclusion

Chapter 5Vocational Narrative Element

Framing

Narrative

Language and vocabulary

Craft, Practice, and Quality

Chapter 6Experiential Learning Element

Service-Learning

Planning and Organizing

Contemplative Practice in Service-Learning

Chapter 7Teaching for Vocation

Using Vocabulary

Using Contemplative Practice

Mindfulness practice: Breathing

Mindfulness practice: Listening

Mindfulness practice: Reading

Mindfulness practice: Writing

Mindfulness practice: Contemplative Movement

Mindfulness practice: Information Technology

Using Service-learning

Planning and Organization

Student Assessment

Service-Learning Project Examples

Program Assessment

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Editorial Reviews

Tim Hohn has filled a noticeable gap in the growing literature on vocation and calling. Having spent his career teaching and advising students in technical and professional fields, he has developed a deep awareness of the vocational challenges that these students face. His book is filled with helpful narratives and practical advice that will make a genuine difference for college teachers and their students. For educators at community colleges and technical institutes, Teaching to Inspire Vocation is essential reading; but at four-year liberal arts institutions as well, teachers and advisors will find practical wisdom and useful suggestions to support their classroom teaching and improve conversations with advisees at all stages of life. If our students are to discern their vocations, they will need mentors who—in their teaching and advising—have found their own calling; we can all be grateful that Tim Hohn has found his.

David S. Cunningham

"Hohn has done a wonderful job synthesizing a broad range of important ideas and findings, and I wish him much success with the book. It deserves a wide reading."

Timothy Clydesdale